The Duck Thread

[skylerw]

Looky what we got this morning

 

[WVduckchick]

Looky what we got this morning

WOW!! Very nice!!

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Looky what we got this morning

Awww

 

[Julie Birb]

Aaaaahsome some fuzzlets with webs probably peeping and being burd.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Hey guys I hatched out 8 ancona ducklings. They are 4 to 5 weeks old now and 1 of them has started quacking. We now know for sure she is a girl. I noticed her bill is pink and the other 7 have tan bills. The others are also making whisper noises. Some are still chirping. Please tell me I don't have 7 drakes and 1 hen?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hey guys I hatched out 8 ancona ducklings. They are 4 to 5 weeks old now and 1 of them has started quacking. We now know for sure she is a girl. I noticed her bill is pink and the other 7 have tan bills. The others are also making whisper noises. Some are still chirping. Please tell me I don't have 7 drakes and 1 hen?

Just give them more time... 4-5 weeks is early still...

 

[MandyJ]

Hey guys I hatched out 8 ancona ducklings. They are 4 to 5 weeks old now and 1 of them has started quacking. We now know for sure she is a girl. I noticed her bill is pink and the other 7 have tan bills. The others are also making whisper noises. Some are still chirping. Please tell me I don't have 7 drakes and 1 hen?

Good luck! If they were mine, that is how it would be. My luck is horrid! That's why I got mine sexed.I KNEW what would happen! Lol
Mandy

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Just give them more time... 4-5 weeks is early still...

Is it possible the beak color doesn't mean anything? I know it did with my rouens.. I've had the worst luck this year with getting an overwhelming number of boys..

 

[Ravynscroft]

Is it possible the beak color doesn't mean anything? I know it did with my rouens.. I've had the worst luck this year with getting an overwhelming number of boys..

Most of the time, in juvies, bill color has no connection to gender... it's only when they mature that in some breeds the drakes bill turns green... *I think* it's only with certain top quality lines of Welsh Harlequins that they can be sexed by bill color... I'm not totally sure on Anconas, but I don't think bill color is reliable with them either...

ETA: I have 2 Rouen (mixes) and one has light bill, other has dark... both are female...

 

[MandyJ]

Is it possible the beak color doesn't mean anything? I know it did with my rouens.. I've had the worst luck this year with getting an overwhelming number of boys..

I think with Pekins it doesn't mean anything. I have 3 hens all have different color beaks. One is yellow, one is peach color and one is a darker yellow. And I know they are hens, they're laying eggs. I agree, give them more time. My little girls didn't start to quack until they were over 2 months old.